Gerard Sutton is Immediate Past President of AUSCRS having been co-president with Jacqui Beltz from 2022 to 2025.

Professor Sutton is a regarded internationally as an expert in cataract, refractive and corneal transplant surgery and is in private practice at Vision Eye Institute, Chatswood, NSW.

Gerard is involved in clinical and translational research in modern cataract & refractive surgery and has introduced many new surgical techniques to Australia. He also currently directs a research team at the Save Sight Institute at Sydney Eye Hospital where he is also the Medical Director of the Lions NSW Eye Bank.

Gerard has established a Corneal & Eye Bank Programme in Myanmar and is the Chair of an International Advisory Committee to establish a similar programme in Cambodia.